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More media pressure can only be a positive

Here comes summer!

Grabbing straws and that

Looks to be given some credence by the BEEB http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/live/26436794

Jazz up the current U21 / reserve league (Call it the reserve premier league etc.)...Sell the TV rights, market it as a "cult" / hard core fan attraction & bobs your uncle IMO. Hey, each club could even market a third / fourth "reserve" strip for each occasion. Everyones a winner!

Cracking shirt bar the sponsor IMO

Funny I keep reading this yet we all know we finished 5th because we had 2 strikers in the best form of their entire careers in either half of the season, not because we ever consistently 'bossed' games. Unless we intent to do off with the likes of Anita and fill the rest of midfield and attack with brilliant attacking talent he'll hold us back. 100% this.

Could be the case that he is not willing to pick up an injury that could affect his future... From a source 'very close to the player' this is true. Would explain why the club want a scan to determine if there actually is a problem

Never realised (till this afternoon) that he also has the ECB mail order thingy tied up as well! You buy from their store-the acknowledgement comes via SD He is well on track to rule the world within a year or two IMO. There really is no escape from him

It's that sort of sordid behaviour that got him into this mess in the first place. Banging glass docks? Banging back doors

Sums it all up 100% for me (without the need to ramble)

As I see it he crossed the line & quite rightly was sent off & humbly apologised later. I would have been satisfied if that. But if anyone is suggesting to me that it was a "head but", then they clearly have never either head butted someone nor been subjected to one. It's a sad reflection on the way society works nowardays that people are falling over themselves to throw the knife in just to be heard (Souness & Savage somehow becoming sage-like thinkers whose opinions people should stand up & take notice of...fuckin hell man) when in my view, he's apologised, they've accepted it.....move on, nothing more to see here. As much as I think he's a s**** tactician & we could do so much better for a manager, this isn't a reason to sack him (three mackem defeats on the bounce convinced me he should go mind)& frankly the way some people are running around like playground grass's trying to fuel is all too symptomatic of the uber precious offended t***s some people let themselves be. If it hasn't already, it will turn into a feeding frenzy & the press will hound him out so for once I'll give the club credit for their prompt pr "fine" though you just know it won't end there.

Worst thing that ever happened to mine, I couldn't walk for a week

It's not quite the same thing as using a child's ticket though. Apparently she accompanies two minors, so if she couldn't go they couldn't go presumably. Look at it this way too: if this was an able bodied person who had passed on their ticket to another able bodied person (for example one parent to the other) to accompany their Toon mad children to the match, because they couldn't go themselves, would anybody have any objection to that? Presumably passing on your season ticket to anyone else is against T&C's anyway? So what's the issue here then? The fact a disabled person's ticket is a tenner cheaper than an able bodied's, and the club is losing out on a tenner as a one off to a group of loyal fans, one of whom even worked for the club in the past? I`d do the same, have done in the past (Used my sons student discount season ticket)but I knew that if I got nabbed they wouldn't just grin, pinch my cheek & call me a cheeky monkey. She got rumbled, simple as that. So you would be OK with them taking your season ticket and selling your seat of to somebody else even if there was half of the home games left, also effectively cancelling your bairns' season tickets because they can't go unaccompanied. And you wouldn't think it was harsh in the slightest? Aye, I would without a doubt, especially as there will be countless others doing a similar thing next home match, then the next etc. without getting nabbed. My argument is simply that the club are simply arguing that, in principle, she broke the terms of her contract with the club & were they to ignore it, they would set a president for others to follow suit with them having any redress. I don't blame her for being p*ssed off & complaining, I just think its naïve to expect that having tried it on (she could have contacted the club beforehand to explain the situation & ask for guidance), she can expect to dictate the outcome after having been rumbled. Welcome to the world of modern day corporate football. I disagree. This didn't become public until after their harsh treatment of a lifelong fan, so nobody would have known if they acted sensibly in this case and gave the lady her ST back with possibly a warning on her file. In fact, if he would have came in the public domain then it would have made the club look good instead of the totally incosiderate idiots this makes them look as. Unfortunately, acting sensibly probably doesn't apply when dealing with institutions of this ilk. My comments assume the club to have followed a given protocol when presented with this kind of thing. Should the outcome be based on a subjective evaluation of her individual circumstances, then I firmly agree that she seems to have been treated harshly. I suspect, however, that she was given the stock punishment for a common "offence". its all a bit "if she dies..she dies" mind, ill give you that

It's not quite the same thing as using a child's ticket though. Apparently she accompanies two minors, so if she couldn't go they couldn't go presumably. Look at it this way too: if this was an able bodied person who had passed on their ticket to another able bodied person (for example one parent to the other) to accompany their Toon mad children to the match, because they couldn't go themselves, would anybody have any objection to that? Presumably passing on your season ticket to anyone else is against T&C's anyway? So what's the issue here then? The fact a disabled person's ticket is a tenner cheaper than an able bodied's, and the club is losing out on a tenner as a one off to a group of loyal fans, one of whom even worked for the club in the past? I`d do the same, have done in the past (Used my sons student discount season ticket)but I knew that if I got nabbed they wouldn't just grin, pinch my cheek & call me a cheeky monkey. She got rumbled, simple as that. So you would be OK with them taking your season ticket and selling your seat of to somebody else even if there was half of the home games left, also effectively cancelling your bairns' season tickets because they can't go unaccompanied. And you wouldn't think it was harsh in the slightest? Aye, I would without a doubt, especially as there will be countless others doing a similar thing next home match, then the next etc. without getting nabbed. My argument is simply that the club are simply arguing that, in principle, she broke the terms of her contract with the club & were they to ignore it, they would set a president for others to follow suit without them having any course for redress. I don't blame her for being p*ssed off & complaining, I just think its naïve to expect that having tried it on (she could have contacted the club beforehand to explain the situation & ask for guidance), she can expect to dictate the outcome after having been rumbled. Welcome to the world of modern day corporate football.

It's not quite the same thing as using a child's ticket though. Apparently she accompanies two minors, so if she couldn't go they couldn't go presumably. Look at it this way too: if this was an able bodied person who had passed on their ticket to another able bodied person (for example one parent to the other) to accompany their Toon mad children to the match, because they couldn't go themselves, would anybody have any objection to that? Presumably passing on your season ticket to anyone else is against T&C's anyway? So what's the issue here then? The fact a disabled person's ticket is a tenner cheaper than an able bodied's, and the club is losing out on a tenner as a one off to a group of loyal fans, one of whom even worked for the club in the past? I`d do the same, have done in the past (Used my sons student discount season ticket)but I knew that if I got nabbed they wouldn't just grin, pinch my cheek & call me a cheeky monkey. She got rumbled, simple as that.

Sounds like perfectly reasonable response from the club. If you were, for example, borrowing a child's ticket, to enter the ground, you would be presumably subjected to the same chastisement. If I was nabbed doing a similar thing, I`d be pissed off more with the fact that I`d been rumbled, rather than having the ticket cancelled & my money refunded (With home form as it is lately, she should be grateful FFS!) She would have an argument if she was being made an example of, but I assume she was just subjected to company policy as anyone else would be.

Not wanting to sound like "pedant of the century"like, but can you get bummed in the face? Surely you either "bum" or get "bummed", either way there's no face involved, only arse. Not that I'm an authority on it obviously. 3-1 to the rent boys http://forgifs.com/gallery/d/141928-3/Butt-face-prank.gif

Not wanting to sound like "pedant of the century"like, but can you get bummed in the face? Surely you either "bum" or get "bummed", either way there's no face involved, only arse. Not that I'm an authority on it obviously. 3-1 to the rent boys

It clearly works considering a couple on here have likened him to Mourinho on a few occasions. "Spars with the worlds best tactically." Absolute whitey. Jesus H Christ

You mean the one that leaves Shola Ameobi as your 2nd choice striker? No thanks. Keep the scouting, ditch the policy. Well done, you almost managed to read his post there

Lets please try & keep our transfer policy (Nothing to do with nor influenced by Pardew the employee in any way shape or form it seems) separate from the woeful tactical dunce that is Pardew the manager.

If Pardue had the mackems & we had pre-Neolithic man on Saturday, we would have tore them a new one. No doubt at all in my mind

Isnt that the point though? the reason he comes across as a slimy bottler I mean? If faced with that sort of humiliation / undermining of your job on a weekly basis anyone with an ounce of professional integrity would front it &, if need be, negotiate a way out if they weren't prepared to make your job tenable. He`s a s**** tactician, out of his depth desperate to cling on to the most high profile job he`s ever / will ever had. With this bloke as manager, we will never win anything (Long balls up to Shola was his master plan Saturday remember) Bobby Robson was constantly undermined, overruled and mistreated too. Barcelona were canny rude to him as well. His professionalism and refusal to walk out on an agreement is lauded as gentlemanly rather than making him a slimy bottler. No, that's not suggesting for one second that Pardew is one fraction of the manager that Robson is, but getting on with the job despite your gaffer is something the vast majority can surely relate to. Don't get me wrong now, he comes across as an affable pleasant chap who, based on anecdotal evidence I`ve read, seems a decent bloke, but after 5 minutes of Saturdays game, when I rumbled his master plan, I was seething & so should anyone with an ounce of football knowledge have been at the paucity of schemes he had under his hat. SBR was a proud but shrewd man whose professional integrity refused him the opportunity to manage NUFC when the opportunity first presented itself because he was under contract & wanted to do the right thing. Please don't tell me Pardews operates within similar principles. His willingness to hang on to the job is, in my opinion, financially motivated coupled with an almost narcissistic longing to stay a "high profile" manager, regardless of the consequences. We are where we are in the league despite him not because of him.

Isnt that the point though? the reason he comes across as a slimy bottler I mean? If faced with that sort of humiliation / undermining of your job on a weekly basis anyone with an ounce of professional integrity would front it &, if need be, negotiate a way out if they weren't prepared to make your job tenable. He`s a shite tactician, out of his depth desperate to cling on to the most high profile job he`s ever / will ever had. With this bloke as manager, we will never win anything (Long balls up to Shola was his master plan Saturday remember)